Hyperliquid is the Ethereum-Virtual-Machine execution layer that lives inside the Hyperliquid blockchain rather than on a separate “side-chain.” Because it is built directly into the Hyperliquid ledger, it is secured by the same ultra-fast HyperBFT consensus that powers HyperCore, giving every EVM transaction the same sub-second finality and censorship resistance as Hyperliquid’s on-chain order books